Alito Uses Grammar Lesson to Warn About Interpreting Statutes
“Appellate judges spend virtually every working hour speaking, listening to, reading, or writing English prose. Statutes are written in English prose, and interpretation is not a technical exercise to be carried out by mechanically applying a set of arcane rules,” Alito wrote in a concurrence in the case Facebook Inc. v. Duguid, which confronted the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.